15 (now more) Prominent Republicans Who Want Romney To Release More Tax Returns Right Now

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15 Prominent Republicans Who Want Romney To Release More Tax Returns Right Now

By Annie-Rose Strasser

Mitt Romney continues to resist pressure to turn over more tax returns. In an interview today he said he is “simply not enthusiastic about giving them hundreds or thousands of more pages to pick through, distort, and lie about.”

The call for more information about Romney’s financial past, however, is bipartisan. A poll released today found fifty six percent of all voters, including sixty one percent of independents, think that Romney should release twelve years of returns.

These fifteen prominent Republicans are calling on Romney to release more tax returns, now:

1. George Will...
   
   
2. Bill Kristol...
   
   
3. Ron Paul...
   
   
4. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley...
   
   
5. Michael Steele...
   
   
6. Rep. Walter Jones...
   
   
7. Ana Navarro...
   
   
8. Rep. Pete Sessions. Sessions (R-TX)...
   
   
9. Gov. Haley Barbour...
   
   
10. Matthew Dowd...
    
    
11. Rick Tyler...
    
    
12. John Weaver...
    
    
13. Brit Hume...
    
    
14. David Frum...
    
    
15. John Feehery...

While these Republicans have downplayed the effects of Romney releasing his returns, the tax information may not be so innocuous to the campaign after all. Several experts have said they believe Romney could have paid little to no taxes at all in past years (particularly 2009).

UPDATE

National Review, the conservative publication whose interview is quoted in the first paragraph of this post, has just come out and asked Mitt Romney to release his tax returns. National Review are long-time Romney supporters; they endorsed him in 2008. Here is National Review’s editorial:

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UPDATE

Texas Governor and former Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry (R) has come out and urged Romney to release his returns. When Perry was running for President, he released returns back to 1992.

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/17/530121/15-prominent-republicans-who-want-romney-to-release-more-tax-returns-right-now/